[lm-sensors] lm-sensors 3.1.0 has been released!
Jean Delvare
khali at linux-fr.org
Sun Mar 1 14:10:46 CET 2009
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:28:00 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday evening I released lm-sensors 3.1.0 as planned. The numbering
> reflects the presence of significant changes in this release:
>
> * Completely reworked sensors-detect. Support for Linux 2.4 was
> dropped, devices probe order was reverted (integrated sensors first,
> I2C/SMBus chips last), bus driver names are retrieved from sysfs, bus
> number prediction was fixed, modules we loaded ourselves are unloaded.
> The script is significantly smaller, and smarter.
> * Improvements to libsensors. Circular dependencies in the
> configuration file are detected and dealt with, and more importantly,
> support for multiple configuration files was added. This is an important
> step in the direction of automatic lm-sensors configuration. Also some
> performance and memory usage improvements. Support for instantaneous
> power sensors and current sensors.
> * The format of /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors was changed. The new format
> is easier to edit, which will ease integration with external tools.
> Use the included script sysconfig-lm_sensors-convert to convert from
> the old to the new format.
> * New default sensors.conf file. Much lighter, with only always-correct
> statements. Big performance boost, and hopefully less confusion for
> the user.
> * And as usual, random fixes to all tools.
Phil, please copy the 2 files to your mirror.
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
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